Mark
“Time plays an increasingly larger role, or reoccurring theme within my work,” said Nicholas Ives in the catalogue for an earlier iteration of the Saturn Devours series of works – “my recent experience of becoming a father has heightened this awareness of my place within a changing and transitional and transforming world, as does my work teaching drawing from cadavers within the dissection suite at university. These meditations upon life, death and absurd play between these pivotal poles of existence and being.


Ives is a painter who, unusual these days, is actually in love with painting, and as his technique grows ever more sophisticated, the thematic elements grow deeper and more philosophical. He is apainter’s painter. His work is intensely human, defying abstraction and mediating between the vicissitudes of process and the deeply intimate. He continues to explore the infinite possibilities ofpaint as a vehicle for life and each new phase disrupts the last.






‘Ouroborus (Boy with Snake)’ 2023
oil on linen, framed.
125cm x 170cm

AUD 10,000

SOLD



‘Hyposubjects’ 2022
oil on linen, framed.
33cm x 25cm

AUD 2,500

SOLD



The Wandering Acrobat, 2022
Oil on Linen, framed.
77cm x 56cm

AUD 4,000

SOLD

A Natural Feeling, 2022
Oil on Linen, framed
61cm x 51cm

AUD 3,000

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Encountering Wilderness, 2022
Oil on Linen, framed.
61cm x 51cm

AUD 3,000

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Together for a While, 2022
Oil on canvas
167cm x 120cm

AUD 7,500

SOLD

Jouissance, 2022
Oil on Linen, framed.
91cm x 76cm

AUD 5,000

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Nicholas Ives
SMILE
192cm x 300cm
Oil on linen

$12,000 AUd



Nicholas Ives
For No Reason
(Doug Moran Finalist )

136x150cm
Oil on linen, framed

$8000, inc GST

SOLD


Nicholas Ives
I Don’t Know

136x150cm
Oil on linen, framed

$8000, inc GST

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